| 2026 | GECCO | Discrete Action Offline Reinforcement Learning with Tangled Program Graphs. | Bryce MacInnis, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2025 | CEC | Benchmarking Streaming Evolutionary Ensemble Learning under Shifting Imbalanced Data. | Ziyu Qiu, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2025 | CNSM | IoT Botnet Detection with Drift-Aligned Learning and DNS-Based C2 Identification. | Jeffrey A. Adjei, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood, Biswajit Nandy, Nabil Seddigh |
| 2025 | GECCO | Emergent Braitenberg-style Behaviours for Navigating the ViZDoom 'My Way Home' Labyrinth. | Caleidgh Grace Bayer, Robert Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2025 | GECCO | Interpreting Tangled Program Graphs Under Partially Observable Dota 2 Invoker Tasks. | Robert Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2025 | GECCO | Discovering Blue Team Solutions for an Autonomous Cyber Operations Challenge using an Evolutionary Heuristic Search. | Yuxuan Wang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2025 | ICANN | Learning to Optimize Entropy in the Soft Actor-Critic. | Zhilei Zhou, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2025 | NOMS | Can Flow Metadata Based Signatures Generalize for Identifying Attacks on IoT Devices? | Jeffrey A. Adjei, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood, Biswajit Nandy, Nabil Seddigh |
| 2024 | CEC | Emergent Discovery of Reinforced Programs using Q-Learning and Planning: A Proof of Concept. | Noah Sealy, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2024 | CNSM | Improving Real-Time Anomaly Detection using Multiple Instances of Micro-Cluster Detection. | Rafael Copstein, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2023 | CNSM | MIMC: Anomaly Detection in Network Data via Multiple Instances of Micro-Cluster Detection. | Rafael Copstein, Brad Niblett, Andrew Johnston, Jeff Schwartzentruber, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2023 | EUROGP | A Boosting Approach to Constructing an Ensemble Stack. | Zhilei Zhou, Ziyu Qiu, Brad Niblett, Andrew Johnston, Jeffrey Schwartzentruber, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2022 | GECCO | Benchmarking genetic programming in a multi-action reinforcement learning locomotion task. | Ryan Amaral, Alexandru Ianta, Caleidgh Bayer, Robert J. Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2022 | GECCO | Genetic programming with external memory in sequence recall tasks. | Mihyar Al Masalma, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2022 | GECCO | On the interaction between lexicase selection, modularity and data subsets. | Benjamin Portman, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2021 | CEC | Evolving Simple Solutions to the CIFAR-10 Benchmark using Tangled Program Graphs. | Robert J. Smith, Ryan Amaral, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2021 | GECCO | On the impact of tangled program graph marking schemes under the atari reinforcement learning benchmark. | Alexandru Ianta, Ryan Amaral, Caleidgh Bayer, Robert J. Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2021 | SP | Training regime influences to semi-supervised learning for insider threat detection. | Duc C. Le, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2020 | GECCO | Solving complex problems with coevolutionary algorithms. | Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2019 | EUROGP | A Model of External Memory for Navigation in Partially Observable Visual Reinforcement Learning Tasks. | Robert J. Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2019 | GECCO | Evolving dota 2 shadow fiend bots using genetic programming with external memory. | Robert J. Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2019 | GECCO | Solving complex problems with coevolutionary algorithms. | Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2019 | GECCO | Benchmarking genetic programming in dynamic insider threat detection. | Duc C. Le, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2019 | IM | Network Analytics for Streaming Traffic Analysis. | Sara Khanchi, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2018 | EUROGP | Scaling Tangled Program Graphs to Visual Reinforcement Learning in ViZDoom. | Robert J. Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2018 | GECCO | A genetic algorithm for dynamic controller placement in software defined networking. | Samuel Champagne, Tokunbo Makanju, Chengchao Yao, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2018 | GECCO | On botnet detection with genetic programming under streaming data, label budgets and class imbalance. | Sara Khanchi, Ali Vahdat, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2018 | GECCO | Solving complex problems with coevolutionary algorithms. | Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2018 | GECCO | Benchmarking evolutionary computation approaches to insider threat detection. | Duc C. Le, Sara Khanchi, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2018 | IJCAI | Emergent Tangled Program Graphs in Multi-Task Learning. | Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2018 | NOMS | Streaming Botnet traffic analysis using bio-inspired active learning. | Sara Khanchi, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2017 | EUROGP | Emergent Tangled Graph Representations for Atari Game Playing Agents. | Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2017 | GECCO | Return-oriented programme evolution with ROPER: a proof of concept. | Olivia Lucca Fraser, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood, John T. Jacobs |
| 2017 | GECCO | Multi-task learning in Atari video games with emergent tangled program graphs. | Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2017 | GECCO | Properties of a GP active learning framework for streaming data with class imbalance. | Sara Khanchi, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2017 | GECCO | Solving complex problems with coevolutionary algorithms. | Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2017 | GECCO | Coevolving deep hierarchies of programs to solve complex tasks. | Robert J. Smith, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2016 | EUROGP | On the Impact of Class Imbalance in GP Streaming Classification with Label Budgets. | Sara Khanchi, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2016 | GECCO | On Synergies between Diversity and Task Decomposition in Constructing Complex Systems with GP. | Jessica P. C. Bonson, Stephen Kelly, Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2016 | GECCO | Solving Complex Problems with Coevolutionary Algorithms. | Krzysztof Krawiec, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2016 | GECCO | Discovering Rubik's Cube Subgroups using Coevolutionary GP: A Five Twist Experiment. | Robert J. Smith, Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2016 | GECCO | Initiating a Moving Target Network Defense with a Real-time Neuro-evolutionary Detector. | Robert J. Smith, Ayse Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood, John T. Jacobs |
| 2016 | ICDM | Smart Phone User Behaviour Characterization Based on Autoencoders and Self Organizing Maps. | Deepthi Rajashekar, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2016 | IJCNN | Benchmarking a coevolutionary streaming classifier under the individual household electric power consumption dataset. | Alexander Loginov, Malcolm I. Heywood, Garnett Carl Wilson |
| 2015 | CEC | Better trade exits for foreign exchange currency trading using FXGP. | Alexander Loginov, Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2015 | DIS | Benchmarking Stream Clustering for Churn Detection in Dynamic Networks. | Serdar Baran Tatar, Andrew R. McIntyre, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2015 | EUROGP | Tapped Delay Lines for GP Streaming Data Classification with Label Budgets. | Ali Vahdat, Jillian Morgan, Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2015 | GECCO | Solving Complex Problems with Coevolutionary Algorithms. | Malcolm I. Heywood, Krzysztof Krawiec |
| 2015 | GECCO | Knowledge Transfer from Keepaway Soccer to Half-field Offense through Program Symbiosis: Building Simple Programs for a Complex Task. | Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2015 | LCN | Feature selection for robust backscatter DDoS detection. | Eray Balkanli, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2014 | AAAI | Genotypic versus Behavioural Diversity for Teams of Programs under the 4-v-3 Keepaway Soccer Task. | Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2014 | EUROGP | On Diversity, Teaming, and Hierarchical Policies: Observations from the Keepaway Soccer Task. | Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2014 | GECCO | On botnet behaviour analysis using GP and C4.5. | Fariba Haddadi, Dylan Runkel, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2014 | GECCO | On the application of GP to streaming data classification tasks with label budgets. | Ali Vahdat, Aaron Atwater, Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2013 | GECCO | Benchmarking pareto archiving heuristics in the presence of concept drift: diversity versus age. | Aaron Atwater, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2013 | GECCO | On the impact of streaming interface heuristics on GP trading agents: an FX benchmarking study. | Alexander Loginov, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2013 | GECCO | Label free change detection on streaming data with cooperative multi-objective genetic programming. | Sara Rahimi, Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2013 | GECCO | Flat vs. symbiotic evolutionary subspace clusterings. | Ali Vahdat, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2012 | CEC | On run time libraries and hierarchical symbiosis. | Stephen Kelly, Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2012 | CEC | Symbiotic evolutionary subspace clustering. | Ali Vahdat, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2012 | GECCO | GP under streaming data constraints: a case for pareto archiving? | Aaron Atwater, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2012 | GECCO | Hierarchical task decomposition through symbiosis in reinforcement learning. | John A. Doucette, Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2011 | CEC | Revisiting the Acrobot 'height' task: An example of efficient evolutionary policy search under an episodic goal seeking task. | John A. Doucette, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2010 | CEC | An analysis of clustering objectives for feature selection applied to encrypted traffic identification. | Carlos Bacquet, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2010 | CEC | Bottom-up evolutionary subspace clustering. | Ali Vahdat, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2010 | EUROGP | Novelty-Based Fitness: An Evaluation under the Santa Fe Trail. | John A. Doucette, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2010 | GECCO | Symbiosis, complexification and simplicity under GP. | Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2009 | EUROGP | One-Class Genetic Programming. | Robert Curry, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2009 | GECCO | Classifying SSH encrypted traffic with minimum packet header features using genetic programming. | Riyad Alshammari, Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2009 | GECCO | Benchmarking coevolutionary teaming under classification problems with large attribute spaces. | John A. Doucette, Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2009 | GECCO | Evolutionary clustering with arbitrary subspaces. | Farzaneh Naghibi, Ali Vahdat, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2008 | EUROGP | GP Classification under Imbalanced Data sets: Active Sub-sampling and AUC Approximation. | John A. Doucette, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2008 | EUROGP | Cooperative Problem Decomposition in Pareto Competitive Classifier Models of Coevolution. | Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2008 | GECCO | Managing team-based problem solving with symbiotic bid-based genetic programming. | Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | EUROGP | Training Binary GP Classifiers Efficiently: A Pareto-coevolutionary Approach. | Michal Lemczyk, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | EUROGP | GP Classifier Problem Decomposition Using First-Price and Second-Price Auctions. | Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | GECCO | Pareto-coevolutionary genetic programming for problem decomposition in multi-class classification. | Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | GECCO | Learning recursive programs with cooperative coevolution of genetic code mapping and genotype. | Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | SMC | One-class learning with multi-objective genetic programming. | Robert Curry, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | SMC | Multi-objective competitive coevolution for efficient GP classifier problem decomposition. | Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2007 | SMC | Growing recurrent self organizing map. | Ozge Yeloglu, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2006 | CEC | Probabilistic (Genotype) Adaptive Mapping Combinations for Developmental Genetic Programming. | Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2006 | GECCO | Improving GP classifier generalization using a cluster separation metric. | Ashley George, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2006 | GECCO | On evolving buffer overflow attacks using genetic programming. | Hilmi Gnes Kayacik, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2006 | GECCO | Pareto-coevolutionary genetic programming classifier. | Michal Lemczyk, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2006 | GECCO | MOGE: GP classification problem decomposition using multi-objective optimization. | Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2006 | PPSN | Probabilistic Adaptive Mapping Developmental Genetic Programming (PAM DGP): A New Developmental Approach. | Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | ACSAC | Evolving Successful Stack Overflow Attacks for Vulnerability Testing. | Hilmi Gnes Kayacik, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | AI | Comparing Dimension Reduction Techniques for Document Clustering. | Bin Tang, Michael A. Shepherd, Malcolm I. Heywood, Xiao Luo |
| 2005 | CBMS | Automated Optic Nerve Analysis for Diagnostic Support in Glaucoma. | Jin Yu, Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, Paul Habib Artes, Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | CEC | CasGP: building cascaded hierarchical models using niching. | Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2005 | CEC | Toward co-evolutionary training of a multi-class classifier. | Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | EUROGP | Context-Based Repeated Sequences in Linear Genetic Programming. | Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | GECCO | Evolving recurrent models using linear GP. | Xiao Luo, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2005 | GECCO | Use of a genetic algorithm in brill's transformation-based part-of-speech tagger. | Garnett Carl Wilson, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | IJCNN | Evaluation of cluster combination functions for mixture of experts. | Robert Redhead, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | IJCNN | Training the SOFM efficiently: an example from intrusion detection. | Leigh Wetmore, Ayse Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2005 | PST | Selecting Features for Intrusion Detection: A Feature Relevance Analysis on KDD 99. | Hilmi Gnes Kayacik, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2004 | AI | Towards Efficient Training on Large Datasets for Genetic Programming. | Robert Curry, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2004 | CEC | Cascaded GP models for data mining. | Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2004 | GECCO | On Multi-class Classification by Way of Niching. | Andrew R. McIntyre, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2004 | GECCO | On Nave Crossover Biases with Reproduction for Simple Solutions to Classification Problems. | M. David Terrio, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2003 | GECCO | A Linear Genetic Programming Approach to Intrusion Detection. | Dong Song, Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2003 | IJCNN | "Freecell" neural network heuristics. | Alphonsus Dunphy, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2003 | IJCNN | Predicting intrusions with local linear models. | PingZhao Hu, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2003 | IJCNN | On the capability of an SOM based intrusion detection system. | Hilmi Gnes Kayacik, Ayse Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2003 | IJCNN | The self-organization by lateral inhibition model: validation of clustering. | Bin Tang, Malcolm I. Heywood, Michael A. Shepherd |
| 2002 | CEC | The effect of routing under local information using a social insect metaphor. | Suiliong Liang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2002 | GECCO | Intelligent Packets For Dynamic Network Routing Using Distributed Genetic Algorithm. | Suihong Liang, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2000 | EUROGP | Register Based Genetic Programming on FPGA Computing Platforms. | Malcolm I. Heywood, Nur Zincir-Heywood |
| 2000 | ICASSP | Reconfigurable computing implementation of binary morphological operators using 4-, 6- and 8-connectivity. | H. M. Talu, E. Igci, M. E. Tekin, H. S. Sevtekin, B. . Gen, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2000 | IJCNN | Continuous Optimal Controllers Using Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts. | V. Paraskevopoulos, Chris R. Chatwin, Malcolm I. Heywood |
| 2000 | SMC | Page-based linear genetic programming. | Malcolm I. Heywood, Ayse Nur Zincir-Heywood |